Title: Stilt bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Berytidae) of Poland: check-list, distribution, bionomics Author: Grzegorz Gierlasiński, Artur Taszakowski, Barbara Lis Citation style: Gierlasiński Grzegorz, Taszakowski Artur, Lis Barbara. (2019). A Stilt bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Berytidae) of Poland: check-list, distribution, bionomics. “Fragmenta Faunistica” (Vol. 62, iss. 1 (2019), s. 1-25), doi 10.3161/00159301FF2019.62.1.001 FRAGMENTA FAUNISTICA 62 (1): 1–25, 2019 PL ISSN 0015-9301 © MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY PAS DOI 10.3161/00159301FF2019.62.1.001 Stilt bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Berytidae) of Poland: check-list, distribution, bionomics 1 2 3 Grzegorz GIERLASIŃSKI , Artur TASZAKOWSKI and Barbara LIS 1Doliny Miętusiej 27/44, 43-316 Bielsko-Biała, Poland; e-mail:
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[email protected] Abstract: In Poland, the family Berytidae Fieber, 1851 is currently represented by nine species. This paper gives an overview of their biology, feeding habits, hosts, and known distribution, and presents new localities and the review of their distribution in Poland. Key words: true bugs, faunistics, biodiversity, ecology INTRODUCTION The family Berytidae belongs to the infraorder Pentatomomorpha, superfamily Lygaeoidea, and includes three subfamilies, i.e. Berytinae, Gampsocorinae and Metacanthinae (Péricart 2001). Representatives of the family Berytidae are small or medium-sized insects, reaching from 2.30 to over 16 mm in length. They are characterized by a narrow, highly elongated, rod- shaped body (except for some taxa occurring in the Americas) and highly elongated legs and antennae.